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Visa fullständig version : Louis Theroux - America's Medicated Kids


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2010-04-30, 11:52
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Jag har sett de första 20 minuterna och finner detta extremt intressant. Louis Theroux är förövrigt min favorit journalist. Jag har precis läst en bok där de tog upp "bipolar disorder" också där de påpekade att.. skitsamma, jag kan quota delar av vad jag skrev i min essay längst ned.



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From 1994 to 2003 the number of children diagnosed with "Bipolar Disorder", a condition characterized by cycles of devastating hopelessness and despair followed by times of ecstatic excitement, had skyrocketed. Compared to 1994, there was 40 times more kids under the age of nineteen diagnosed with this disease in 2003. This clearly shows that something was going on.
One explanation was the change in how kids were brought up. Some people claimed that there had been a fundamental shift in the way the kids got brought up and that would be the reason why so many more kids got diagnosed with this disorder. It turned out that this fact could not be identified. The disorder involves a heightened risk of committing suicide but during this time, there were no rise in that matter at all.
Since the kids with this disorder always had been large, parents looked for help and got in contact with psychiatrists. That would result in an increase of other diseases too, but it did not. That makes that explanation unreliable too. (P. 92)
Nonetheless, there is a certain method psychiatrists uses, just like a doctor when he is doing a quick examination of a patient. If you said to the psyciatrist that you are feeling "sad or empty", "appearing tearful", exhibiting "fatigue", indecision" or "insomnia", being more "talkative" than usual, suffering from "distractibility" or having "inflated selfesteem" - you would be categorized as a sufferer from bipolar disorder, even though you only mention one or two of these symptoms.
What followed was a snowball effect, Dr. Healy said (P. 93). The more cases of bipolar disorder that got brought out into the light, the more professionals got exposed to it, the higher the diagnosis rate climbed, which in turn made more professionals do further diagnosing of the disorder.
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